relocation lesson number 1: do not sell your bookshelves until you’ve figured out what you want to do with your books.

ok, so i’ve sold most of our bookshelves in preparation for our move. now i don’t know what to do with the books that used to sit in them. i’ve temporarily put them in shipping boxes, but looking at how many boxes we’ve already filled with just books alone, i think we should re-think shipping these. otherwise, our shipping container would already be full, and man can’t live on books alone, eh?

time to get mean.

there are perhaps a few books i’d like to keep and would never part with, but i don’t feel the same connection with most of the books on my shelf (hubby is a different species, though; he’d ship 20 year old magazines halfway round the world, if possible). they were good reads, entertaining, but that’s it. they were good until i’ve turned the last page. but i most likely won’t read them again, ever.

which means, really, i just can’t justify paying for shipment of these books. so i was wondering, would anyone be interested in a book exchange?

i am going to put up a list, and if there’s something that fits your fancy, raise your hand… or leave a comment, or send me an email, and i’ll mail the book(s) to you. but here’s the catch: you have to send me one in exchange. i don’t care if it’s used, even dilapidated, as long as the pages are complete, and i haven’t read it yet. and, you have to mail it to the address of our next home.

think about it. you get a new book (or at least they look like they’re almost new) for the price of mailing a book to singapore, plus you get rid of that book you no longer want to keep (but you have to tell me what you’re sending, in case i’ve already read it).

of course, if nobody’s interested, i can always drop them at the library. their english section could definitely use some addition.

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